02695nam 2200613Ia 450 991015475990332120200520144314.01-282-23291-697866138106560-88920-700-3(CKB)1000000000714101(EBL)685778(OCoLC)614475088(SSID)ssj0000344827(PQKBManifestationID)11254279(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344827(PQKBWorkID)10316055(PQKB)10230044(MiAaPQ)EBC685778(CaPaEBR)402468(CaBNvSL)jme00326926 (MiAaPQ)EBC3246220(MdBmJHUP)muse48097(Au-PeEL)EBL685778(CaPaEBR)ebr10147125(EXLCZ)99100000000071410119931209d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEccentric visions[electronic resource] re constructing Australia /Gaile McGregorWaterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc19941 online resource (349 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-88920-229-X Includes bibliography and index.CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 IMAGE/SELF-IMAGE; 3 COMING INTO THE COUNTRY; 4 ALTERNATIVE READINGS; 5 AFTER WORDS; APPENDIX A: ""Voice in the Wilderness"": A Note on Grounds and Precedents; APPENDIX B: Notes on Selected Australian Novels; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX What this book represents is, quite literally, a ""slice"" of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, from soap operas to political behaviour, Gaile McGregor has constructed a model that, in its challenge to uniformitarianism, is a test case in ethnographic theory. Using methods ranging from the hermeneutic through the structuralist to the psychoanalytic, McGregor deploys the self-evidence of communal life and language to establish not only that all cultural phenomena are ""patterned,"" but Australian literatureHistory and criticismAustraliaCivilization1976-1990AustraliaSocial conditions1976-Electronic books.Australian literatureHistory and criticism.994.063McGregor Gaile1943-1018662MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154759903321Eccentric visions2489307UNINA